WWE RAW Notes: Austin Theory Officially Joins The Vision, WWE Confirms Dominik Mysterio Shoulder Injury, Penta Surprise Return from Injury, Trick Williams Appears, Commentary Team Change Confirmed for 1/5/26 Show, The Usos Win WWE World Tag Titles

Dec 29, 2025

Austin Theory Officially Joins The Vision

Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida featured Austin Theory being officially announced as a member of The Vision.

This was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Theory being revealed as the mystery masked person who had been helping The Vision in recent weeks and Theory teaming with The Vision last week to get a victory over CM Punk and Rey Mysterio. During tonight’s show, The Vision’s Paul Heyman, Logan Paul, “Big” Bronson Reed, and Bron Breakker came out to the ring with Theory. After some insults directed at the crowd for chanting “CM Punk” and Punk, Heyman announced that Theory is officially the newest member of The Vision.

IT'S OFFICIAL 👀

The newest member of The Vision is @_Theory1! pic.twitter.com/FPoFiIkjU9
— WWE (@WWE) December 30, 2025

This led to Theory giving a speech with some help by Heyman that was interrupted by Punk and devolved into a heated promo exchange between Punk and Breakker about their WWE World Heavyweight title match at next week’s show.

WWE Confirms Dominik Mysterio Shoulder Injury

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured WWE officially confirming that Dominik Mysterio had recently suffered a shoulder injury.

During the show, Raquel Rodriguez was seen backstage for an interview with Kathy Kelly for some words ahead of her WWE Women’s World Championship match against Nikki Bella and Stephanie Vaquer. This led to fellow Judgement Day member Liv Morgan showing up to interrupt and talked about the state of the group. Morgan also confirmed that Mysterio is injured stating “Daddy Dom is out for a little bit.”

Liv Morgan says Dominik Mysterio will be out for a while.#WWERAW pic.twitter.com/ooKJirIcdb
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) December 30, 2025

In a follow-up segment, RAW commentator Joe Tessitore confirmed Mysterio is currently out of action indefinitely due to a shoulder injury.

Joe Tessitore followed up and said Dominik Mysterio will be out indefinitely with a shoulder injury.

We wish Dom a speedy recovery. https://t.co/A2Z283dS8M pic.twitter.com/OMzz59sB2V
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) December 30, 2025

Mysterio has been out of action since suffering the injury at Lucha Libre AAA’s Guerra de Titanes 2025 event earlier this month in Mexico.

Penta Makes Surprise Return from Injury

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Penta making his surprise return from injury.

During the singles match between Rey Mysterio and Austin Theory, Mysterio hit a 619 to Theory and prepared to hit the

only for Logan Paul to grab Mysterio and yanked him down onto the apron. This led to the referee calling for the bell and Paul and Theory attacking Mysterio after the match. This led to Penta’s music playing and him running out to the ring to save Mysterio and cleared the ring of The Vision. Penta and Mysterio celebrated together and gave a staredown to Paul and Theory.

PENTA IS BACK!!! 🔥@PENTAELZEROM pic.twitter.com/k3f1xzaFPN
— WWE (@WWE) December 30, 2025

This was Penta’s first appearance since this past November due to a shoulder injury.

Trick Williams Makes Appearance

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured NXT talent Trick Williams making an appearance.

During the show, Williams was seen in RAW GM Adam Pearce’s office and the two were talking about Williams’ free agent status and Pearce hoping to get to see Williams more often for his RAW brand. Trick agreed and gave Pearce his calling card before leaving.

Trick Williams is READY for the main roster.#WWERAW pic.twitter.com/tU5E1wgAnw
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) December 30, 2025

Commentary Team Change Confirmed for Jan. 5, 2026 WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured RAW commentator Joe Tessitore confirming that WWE will be making a change to their commentary team for RAW starting with next week’s RAW Netflix Anniversary show on January 5, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York.

Tessitore stated that Michael Cole and Corey Graves will be the new commentary team going forward for the RAW brand starting next week.